Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor 1
4. Danger: Stigmatizing the Racialized Underclass
5. Bong Joon Ho Meets Richard Wright: Spatialized Poverty in The Host and Parasite or ‘The Koreans Who Lived Underground’ 21
6. “Holes Swarming with Human Beings”: Racing the Urban Underclass in the Antebellum City Mystery Novel 45
7. The Black Body as Embodied Sound: Musicking as Personal and Communal Agency against the Othering of the Lettered Gaze in Puerto Rico in the Early Twentieth Century 67
8. Representations of the “Aliens Within”: Romanian Jews and Roma in Radu Jude’s Cinema 85
9. Alien Horrors: Lovecraft and the Racialized Underclass in the Age of Trump 113
10. Disease: Pathologizing the Other
11. Bounding Boukman: The Diseasing of Haitian Bodies in Representations of Race and Culture, from Zombies to Disaster Capitalism 135
12. De-Pathologizing Diversity: A Critical Analysis of Racialized Discourses of Difference and Deviance in The Black Border and the Imperative of Reframing Approaches to Linguistic Variation 161
13. Sowing the Seeds: Illness as Social Imbalance and Instrument of Social Change in Octavia Butler’s Speculative Fiction 187
14. Aliens Without and Within: Abjection from Tetter to Tumor in Toni Morrison’s Novels 209
15. African American Women and Stigma: Reactions to Medical Targeting for HIV and COVID-19 233
16. Displacement: Constructing and Countering Collapse
17. Spilling Over: Morality and Epidemiology in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts 255
18. Socrates in the City of Bones: Plato’s Republic and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean 277
19. Displacement and Discipline: Refugees and the Unemployed in Living and Public Spaces in Greece 293
20. Resettled Refugees in the American South: Discourses of Victimization and Transgression in Clarkston, Georgia 315
21. Making the Beams of Architectural Poetry out of the Rubble of Displacement: Czesław Miłosz, Taha Muhammad Ali, and the Lyric of Constructed World Citizenry 337
22. Notes on Contributors 351
23. Index 355